Dr. Akosua Wamba (Kossy)

Dr. Akosua Wamba (Kossy)

Advisory Council Member – Hepatitis B Programme

Dr. Akosua Wamba (Kossy) is a medical doctor and infectious diseases specialist with strong clinical, research, and public health experience spanning the United Kingdom, Ghana, and global health settings. She serves as an Advisory Council Member at Community Vision Group (CVG), where she provides technical and strategic advisory support to the organisation’s Hepatitis B programme, contributing to evidence-based approaches for prevention, care, and advocacy.

Kossy brings deep expertise in infectious diseases, internal medicine, public health, and health systems strengthening. Her professional interests include hepatitis and other infectious diseases, sexual and reproductive health, clinical research, and quality improvement. In her advisory role at CVG, she supports programme design and implementation, contributes to clinical and public health guidance, and strengthens CVG’s advocacy and research efforts aimed at improving Hepatitis B birth dose coverage, early diagnosis, and linkage to care.

She currently serves as a Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases at King’s College Hospital in the United Kingdom. She has also worked as a Clinical Development Fellow in Glasgow, an Internal Medicine Trainee across the West Midlands, and a Clinical Skills Teacher at Keele Medical School, where she supported medical education, assessments, and simulation-based training. Kossy has also worked at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, and as a Senior Medical Officer. 

She holds an MBChB from the University of Ghana Medical School, a Master of Public Health with Merit from the University of Glasgow (as a Chevening Scholar), and is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP UK). Kossy is fluent in English with intermediate proficiency in French and is skilled in quantitative research and systematic reviews.